denyse.baillargeon [at] umontreal.ca (Denyse Baillargeon) is professor emeritus in Université de Montréal's history department. She is author of Ménagères au temps de la Crise (Remue-ménage, 1991), a work which was translated into English as Making Do : Women, Family and Home in Montréal during the Great Depression (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999), and Un Québec en mal d’enfants: La médicalisation de la maternité au Québec, 1910-1970 (Remue-ménage, 2004). Her current research explores the popularization of psychological theories concerning the education of children in Quebec after the Second World War, and the interactions between women and the city.